Magpie Literacy's CEO and Founder Rebecca Kockler is quoted in this important awareness raising article in the The New York Times today focused on gaps in literacy education for older students.
"Learning to read typically goes like this: Through third grade, children receive explicit lessons in the building blocks of literacy, like vocabulary and phonics. Then, strong students use those tools with more difficult texts in later grades, transitioning from “learning to read” to “reading to learn.”
If a child’s ability to decode words never reaches a certain level, it becomes extremely unlikely that their reading comprehension will advance, a recent landmark study found.
About 40 percent of children in America could fall below that level, said Rebecca Kockler, who leads Reading Reimagined, a program studying the issue with Stanford University researchers. She called the statistic “jaw dropping.”Some students never received robust phonics instruction in elementary school. But even those who did may be able to break down a word like “cat,” while struggling with more complex ones like “education.”
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1wThis is so interesting! Thank you for sharing.